Tuck Home Treasures

An advanced phonemic awareness sequence targeting medial sound substitutions, complex consonant cluster surgery, and multisyllabic phoneme manipulation to reinforce orthographic mapping.

A 10-day extension project where sixth-grade students master figurative language, connotations, tone, and mood by curating dynamic museum exhibits. Students analyze authorial craft in rich excerpts and synthesize their findings into interactive word-alchemy showcase displays.

A scaffolded 4th-grade SPED worksheet focusing on constructing compound sentences with coordinating conjunctions (and, but, or, so, yet). Features visual anchor formulas, chunked practice, sentence combining with handwriting lines, and a self-monitoring checklist.

A scaffolded Grade 3-4 sequence that trains students to uncover fictional character traits using dialogue, actions, thoughts, and feelings. Students move from distinguishing physical appearance versus personality traits to tracking thoughts and feelings, culminating in citing text evidence.

Advanced phoneme manipulation and sound transposition across multisyllabic bases, compound structures, and affix junctions.

A 2-up printable half-sheet exit ticket for the Word Alchemists project. Features rapid formative assessments evaluating student mastery of word connotations, figurative language impact, tone versus mood distinction, and exhibit readiness self-check.

An intensive 8-day supplemental phonics sequence targeting vowel digraph pairs through systematic auditory discovery, explicit orthographic rules, oral decoding drills, spelling dictation, and decodable reading comprehension passages aligned to IEP literacy goals.

Systematic oral dissection, deletion, and substitution of initial and final consonant clusters in complex single-syllable words.

A printable 1-page comprehensive evaluation rubric sheet for the Word Alchemists extension project. Features detailed 4-tier performance descriptors for connotation precision, figurative archaeology, tone and mood chemistry, and museum artifact engineering, alongside dual self-assessment and teacher feedback sections.

Fourth-grade standards-aligned instructional sequence featuring integrated English Language Arts literary analysis and North Carolina regional geography and historical development.

A targeted focus on isolating and manipulating medial vowel sounds across similar phonetic frames and vowel shifts.

A 2-page printable anthology containing six diverse, high-interest literary mentor texts for sixth-grade curators. Spanning sci-fi, realistic fiction, gothic suspense, and contemporary prose, each passage features annotated curator clues highlighting charged connotations, figurative devices, and tonal shifts.